Drake Isn’t The Only Man Who Loves Hermès Birkin Bags

On a recent balmy afternoon, the professional sports bettor Dave Oancea, better known as Vegas Dave, found a brief window in his “super busy” schedule to ponder the allure of the Hermès Birkin bag. “I mean, which one?” he asked. “The $500,000 one, or the $100,000 ones?” Oancea, who owns a total of six Birkins, was referring to a video he posted to YouTube in 2019 in which he entered Las Vegas’ Trump International Hotel and paid a record half a million dollars for an Hermès—”air-mays,” as Oancea pronounces it—Himalaya Birkin bag with 18-karat white gold hardware and over 200 diamonds, widely considered by Birkin acolytes the rarest in the world. Read more at GQ.